Inventions on Menu Interfacing for GUI Applications, A TRIZ based Analysis, Part-3

Author: Umakant Mishra

Abstract:

This article analyses 15 patents on Menu System from a TRIZ perspective to find out their IFRs and Contradictions. The previous two parts of this article analysed ten patents on the menu interfaces. This part analyses five more patents from TRIZ perspective and draws out the conclusion that the TRIZ process and methodology is perfectly applicable to software inventions.

Keywords: TRIZ, Innovation, Inventive Problem Solving, Invention, Software Patents, GUI, Software inventions, Graphical User Interface, GUI design, GUI elements, Menu design

http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/46

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